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Ophthalmologist Herve Byron, MD, has died, according to a NorthJersey.com report.

Allergan has announced it has completed its acquisition of SkinMedica, according to a news release.

Spine Pain Management in Houston presented at this year's fifth annual LD MICRO conference held by LD MICRO in Los Angeles, a small firm focused on providing micro-cap research to its clients.

Matthew Rupert, MD, has joined Spine Treatment Centers of America in Nashville, Tenn.

Dan Short, Vice President, Sales for Medical Web Technologies, outlines five major challenges ambulatory surgery centers face and how health information technology platforms can provide an efficient and cost effective solution.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required rules be crafted and adopted for healthcare electronic funds transfers and electronic remittance advice transactions, and providers will need to be compliant by Jan. 1, 2014, according to Finextra.

Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif., has stopped billing Medicare for kwashiorkor, a rare nutritional disorder usually affecting famished children, according to California Watch.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is preparing for the 27 percent cut to Medicare physician payments that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2013, if Congress does not act to preserve the sustainable growth rate, according the American…

About 20 medical specialty groups sent a letter to Rep. Diana Black (R-Tenn.) praising the Electronic Health Records Improvements Act, which would ease anesthesiologists' participation in the federal EHR incentive program, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

EndoChoice has received FDA approval for a new water bottle cap irrigation system, according to an Atlanta Business Chronicle report.